Overseeing: Myrtle and Cordelia oversaw the proceedings, which took place in the majestic home in New Orleans

Familiar face: Stevie Nicks made an appearance at the start and end of the episode

Fan Taylor Moak wrote on Twitter: 'But really though, this whole season has been so great and THAT is how they chose to end it? #AmericanHorrorStory #disappointed'.

And Puppa30 wrote on the site: 'I hated the ending of AHS, Cordelia was my least favorite character!'.

Kelsey Hamilton added: ‘honestly... I've hated this season. So disappointing. Last season was so good…’.

Gearing up: Madison (Emma Roberts) was seen day dreaming as she sat in a bubble bath, surrounded by candles at the beginning

The 70-minute episode called The Seven Wonders opened with Stevie Nicks singing Fleetwood Mac hit Seven Wonders as she wandered through a deserted Miss Robichaux’s as viewers saw Zoe (Taissa Farmiga), Madison (Emma Roberts) - slipping into a bubble bath - and Misty (Lily Rabe) breathing new life into old plants, while Queenie (Gabourey Sidibe) tried to connect with Nan.

‘Good luck girls,’ Stevie told them as they gathered on the stairs at the beginning of the FX horror show.

It featured Myrtle (Frances Conroy) bringing the witches together for a ‘Last Supper’ where they were served caviar and champagne before attempting the Seven Wonders to determine who would be the new leader, and who would fail and die.

Final night: Myrtle brought the witches together for a ‘Last Supper’ where they were served caviar and champagne before attempting the Seven Wonders to determine who would be the new leader, and who would fail and die

Counseling: She told the witches that for some of them, this was 'possibly' their 'last meal'

‘For one of you this is the last moment of freedom and anonymity before assuming the Supremacy,’ she told them.

‘For you others, possibly a last meal.’

The episode saw the witches attempting the tasks, beginning with telekinesis - controlling objects with the mind.

‘You either are, or aren’t a Supreme,’ Cordelia warned them.

Let the games begin: Zoe is seen getting ready to blow out a candle during the telekinesis test

The first test posed no problems for the quartet.

Concilium - mind control - also was no problem, as Misty got Queenie to slap herself in the face.

‘This is fun,’ she said.

Queenie got her revenge by making Misty pull her own hair.

Madison made Kyle (Evan Peters) lick her shoe and kiss her, while Zoe made him kiss her, too, before Madison made Zoe strangle Kyle.

‘That’s enough,’ Cordelia commanded.

She's mad: Queenie (Gabourney Sidibe) exacted her revenge during the mind control segment

Ouch! Misty was forced to pull her own hair as Queenie got her revenge

Conniving: Madison made Kyle (Evan Peters) to lick her shoe and kiss her

Meanwhile the girls were sent to their own different personal hells.

Madison joked: ‘It was horrible. I was stuck on a network musical. It was a live version of The Sound of Music. I wasn't even the lead, I was Liesl.’

Zoe said she was stuck on a loop, breaking up constantly with Kyle, while Queenie was in a fried chicken eatery.

But Misty didn’t return - she got stuck in a high school biology class.

'If you won't dissect a dead frog, you can dissect a live one!' her teacher told her, again and again as her ‘earth body’ disintegrated.

Trapped: The girls were sent to their own different personal hells, but Misty didn't return, and got stuck in her high school biology class

Worst split ever: Zoe said she was stuck on a loop, breaking up constantly with Kyle

The remaining girls then tried their hand at transmutation - ‘teleporting’ across the room in a game of deadly tag that ended with Zoe spiking herself on top of the academy’s gates.

‘It’s not a game,’ Cordelia warned them as they joked about beforehand, trying to have fun.

Blood gushed from Zoe's stomach as she lay impaled on the spikes.

And Queenie gets a shock when she learns she cannot do vitalum vitalis, bringing a person back from death.

Jarring: Queenie gets a shock when she learns she cannot do vitalum vitalis, bringing a person back from death

‘Guess who isn’t Supreme after all?’ says Madison, who claimed she could bring her back.

‘Would that make me Supreme?’ she asked.

She brought a dead fly back to life to prove she is capable - and refused to help Zoe.

‘She lost, fair and square,’ she said.

‘If you refuse this you don’t deserve to be Supreme,’ Myrtle warned her.

‘Either crown me or kiss my ass,’ Madison said before storming off.

‘Maybe we deserve to die out,’ Cordelia said of the coven after realising Madison might be the new Supreme.

Petulant: Madison refuses to bring Zoe back to life, insisting that she herself is the Supreme

Devastated: Kyle cries over Zoe's body as he kisses her hand

Myrtle said she had similar thoughts but told Cordelia: ‘You have royal blood in your veins.’

‘You have great power my girl,’ Myrtle told her. ‘You must perform the Seven Wonders.’

‘You think I could be the next Supreme?’ she asked incredulously.

‘I’d stake my life on it,’ Myrtle replied.

Could she be the one? Myrtle suggests that Cordelia is in fact the Supreme, and so she starts to perform the Seven Wonders

As Cordelia did the seven tasks she brought Zoe back to life - and regained her own sight.

‘This thing started as a competition, I say we end it as one,’ said Madison as they embarked on divination, or seeing into the future.

Myrtle told them to find items that belonged to former Supremes hidden in the house.

Cordelia managed it, while Madison struggled to read the pebbles.

‘I have so many powers, I could tear this room apart,’ she shouted as she said she never had a chance at running the coven.

‘It’s all just some jacked up version of Celebrity Rehab. I’m going back to Hollywood where people are normal,’ she told Myrtle. ‘I suggest you change the locks because when I tell TMZ everything it won’t be long before torches, pitchforks and Molotov cocktails become a real big part of your day.’

She's done: ‘I have so many powers, I could tear this room apart,’ Madison shouted as she said she never had a chance at running the coven

The end: Kyle strangled Madison to death for not bringing Zoe back to life

But as she tried to leave Kyle grabbed her by the throat - furious that she let Zoe die.

‘I did it for us,’ she told him. ‘I love you, please.’

‘You’re not that good an actress,’ he sneered as he chokes her to death - while Cordelia managed to bring Zoe back to life as butler Spalding (Denis O'Hare) appeared to get rid of Madison’s body, as Cordelia became younger and more powerful.

‘Behold, the one true Supreme,’ Myrtle said.

‘Women who identify as witches are born as such,’ Cordelia said in a sit-down TV interview at the Academy as she went public with the school for the first time.

‘Their abilities, which we call powers, are part of who we are.

‘We’ll always be targets for the ignorant. It is what it is. But we are strong women.’

She's the one: The new Supreme urges young witches to get in touch during a TV interview

And then she urged potential witches to get in touch or to go to New Orleans to the Academy where there was a ‘home and family’ waiting for them, as applications began to pour in.

'We’re entering a new era,’ said Myrtle, who urged her to ‘clear the rot of the past’, referring to herself.

‘We all know what happens to a witch who grievously harms another witch,’ said Myrtle as she insisted that she be burned at the stake for her role in taking the lives of two council members, Cecily Pembroke and Quentin Fleming.

‘I killed and I must pay for it,’ Myrtle insisted. ‘My life’s work is fulfilled.’

‘You were my mother, my true mother,’ Cordelia said.

Penance: Myrtle insists she gets burned at the stake for killing two council members

Painful: Cordelia weeps as she watches Myrtle burn to death

As the Stevie Nicks-penned song Silver Springs played, Myrtle was doused in petrol in a red dress at the stake.

‘You are hereby sentenced to death by fire,’ Cordelia told her.

‘Balenciaga!’ Myrtle screamed as her last word as Cordelia set her on fire.

As lines grow around the block with potential witches Cordelia named Zoe and Queenie her council.

But there was one thing Cordelia still needed to do - deal with mother Fiona (Jessica Lange), who it emerged was not really dead.

Final task: But there was one thing Cordelia still needed to do - deal with mother Fiona (Jessica Lange), who it emerges is not really dead

Almost unrecognisable she returned to the Coven, purportedly to kill Cordelia.

But Cordelia knew she was close to death.

‘Every time I looked at you I saw my own death,’ Fiona told her as she dragged deeply on a cigarette.

‘I loved you plenty, though.’

‘You were the monster in every one of my closets,’ Cordelia said.

Fiona begged her to kill her.

‘I hurt everywhere,’ the frail old lady said.

‘I don’t think we ever hugged,’ Cordelia told her as she slipped away - and Fiona found herself trapped in her own hell, stuck in a cabin with the Axeman, who brought her catfish and slapped her in the face after she attacked him.